How the Internet Works, Communicating by E-Mail

Note • The Internet uses an information system called WWW (World Wide Web) or simply Web. Web information is supplied in the form of pages and the homepage serves as the gateway to the Web pages.

●Communicating by E-Mail

E-mail (electronic mail) is the system of exchanging messages (mail) using the Internet. Anyone who has access to the Internet can send and receive messages at will. The system has the major advantage of being able to deliver messages instantly to people living far away, regardless of distance. Basically it is text information that is exchanged, but images can also be attached.

With this product, you can also transmit the images you have taken in a simple operational sequence (Quick Send) or mail them as file attachments.

How the Internet Works

This section provides a simple explanation of how the Web page works and how to send and receive e-mail.

●Web Page

If you request to see a Web page, the request is delivered to the server storing the Web page in question via the Internet. The server supplies the Web page in response to the request.

Before Using the Communication

Homepage

(the first page of the Web page)

D Supply the homepage

Web Server

(computer storing the Web pages)

C Request to view the homepage

and Internet Functions

B WWW (information

The Internetsystem) searches the appropriate server.

E The homepage will			A Request to view
be displayed.			a homepage